Mediated Sublime via Mexico City: Experimental Video

Mediated Horror via Mexico City: Experimental Video

Mauricio Limon , Mexico City constructs
Light Resonance Shrines


Opens Friday, October 27, 8 pm and the Jazz Radiationist in Gallery 2
Saturday, October 28, Sound.Text .Video Performance, 8 pm
Oct 27 - 30, 8 pm - 1 am
Location: Gallery 1 Supreme Trading. 213 North 8th St. Williamsburg
Complete info: www.kleinblueproductions.com

Celebrating the power of the commonplace to evoke belief in mysterious forces, Mauricio Limon builds an ambiguous shrine for the market sellers of Mexico City. He uses typical market stall materials, household objects and light effects to penetrate into the spirit worlds that bind the living to the dead. The shadowy form of ordinary objects integrates the unseen existing alongside everyday survival.

Sunday Oct 29, 8 pm
Hysterical Horror. Experimental Video from Mexico City by Artemio, Joaquin Sequra and Mauricio Limon,

Location: KBP at Union Docs, 322 Union Avenue in Williamsburg
Directions: Lorimer L Train (Second Stop in Brooklyn)

This video selection emerges from a tendency found in Mexican contemporary art to evoke the macabre with a wickedly funny twist. As both intense social commentary and high camp entertainment, these artists make use of language and the voice to unmask violence that we live with on a daily basis.



Profile of Curator
Sarah Stanley founded KBP in 2002 to realize photography and video projects with artists in cities worldwide, including Berlin, Mexico City, Marrakech and New York City. Since 2004, kbp’s curatorial projects focus on conceptual approaches to contemporary art and society with emerging artists who are exploring new media and materials.

KBP | kleinblue productions | 1.347.689.2597 | Sarah Stanley

Hysterical Horror! Experimental Video from Mexico City
Title List

Joaquin Sequra , Text-based Video. Vulnerable, 6:40 min., 2006
This is a text-based video identifying the most vulnerable points on the human body most likely to cause injury or death. along with how to deliver the attack, disclosed from military manuals currently in use.

Artemio, Saigon Still in Saigon, digital video, 6:15 min., 2003
Trailer for an imagined war film about the Vietnam War using documentary war images from Cuba.

Artemio, Apoohcalypse Now, digital video, 8:26 min., 2002
The whimsical cartoon character interprets Marlon Brando’s monologue in Apocalypse Now.

Joaquin Sequra and Mauricio Limon, Lil’ Fif Fairy Meets Lo-Ridin Evil Butcher , 1:30 min., 2004
Originally staged as a performance piece, Mauricio Limon collaborated with Sequra to film a campy adaptation of good meets evil as a transvestite-dressed fairy is slaughtered by an actual butcher in an absurd display of fake blood cascading off the roof of a big, flashy car. In the end, the fairy rules supreme over the threats posed by social forces that really do grave harm to these dramatic, cross-gender creatures.

Joaquin Sequra, Acapulco Golden, 12:14 min., 2004
A harrowing tale of greed, lust and betrayal, loosely based on a real life incident, starring cult figure Alejandra Bogue, this film has grossed out audiences and has been banned from almost every film festival. Why? See for yourself.


Hysterical Horror! Experimental Video from Mexico City
Artist Bios. All three live and work in Mexico City.

Mauricio Limon works in painting, installation and video. As a painter he has done a series about transvestism and fashion as camouflage for social identity. His work in the field of installation and video revolves around popular social roles and the dynamics of visual perception in relation to representation. His work has been shown in Mexico, in Milan, Berlin, Geneva, Madrid, Barcelona, San Antonio, Washington D.C. and Oslo. He is currently associate curator of video at El Eco Experimental Museum.

Joaquin Segura’s actions, installation and video work have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Mexico, USA and Europe, including La Panaderia, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Centro de la Imagen and Ex-Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City, along with Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid and Palace Adria in Prague.

Artemio Narro studied sculpture and stage design at Parson’s School of Design, The Sculpture Center and UNAM, Mexico City. His video, sculpture and actions have been featured since 1997 in galleries and museums throughout Mexico, Spain and Asia.